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The Weight of Gold
ISBN: 9781647791049
Pub Date: 6 June 2023
Format: Hardcover
268 Pages
Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada’s rise to prominence in the...
Mapping Historical Las Vegas
A Cartographic Journey
ISBN: 9781948908405
Pub Date: 28 June 2022
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
This book takes readers on a cartographic journey through thousands of years of history in Las Vegas and explores many dimensions of the city today. Experience what Las Vegas was like in 1865, 1905, what lies beneath the waters of Lake Mead, an d what goes on in the vast public lands around the city.
Tributary Voices
Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River
ISBN: 9781647790424
Pub Date: 26 April 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Tributary Voices takes a fresh look at the Colorado River through an interdisciplinary approach to the role stories play in cultivating a sustainable water ethic. Through literary, rhetorical, and historical analyses of some of the river’s lesser-known stakeholders, this study considers how our present moment on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact demands a more comprehensive approach to river management.
One Shot for Gold
Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California
ISBN: 9781647790066
Pub Date: 4 May 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive...
Gambling With Lives
A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781948908924
Pub Date: 15 December 2020
Format: Paperback
378 Pages
A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada’s most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this revised and expanded edition includes discussions on: - Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment
- The change to Las Vegas’ “What happens here, stays here” slogan
- The MGM Grand Fire and 1918 influenza pandemic
- Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the service industry
- Legionnaire’s Disease outbreaks at resorts
- Effects of the Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting
- The COVID-19 pandemic
Heavy Ground
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
ISBN: 9781948908887
Pub Date: 8 December 2020
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.
The City That Ate Itself
Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit
ISBN: 9781948908290
Pub Date: 31 January 2019
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
A social and environmental history of Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit.
Grit and Gold
The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849
ISBN: 9781943859771
Pub Date: 1 November 2018
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The captivating true adventure of the Death Valley Jayhawkers’ quest for gold
Mining the Borderlands
Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910
ISBN: 9781943859832
Pub Date: 1 October 2018
Format: Hardcover
184 Pages
A significant examination of the key mining professionals who transformed the US-Mexico borderlands
Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District
Under the Nevada Giant
ISBN: 9781943859221
Pub Date: 15 November 2016
Format: Hardcover
184 Pages
An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community

The Weight of Gold
ISBN: 9781647791049
Pub Date: 6 June 2023
Format: Hardcover
268 Pages
Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada’s rise to prominence in the...
Mapping Historical Las Vegas
A Cartographic Journey
ISBN: 9781948908405
Pub Date: 28 June 2022
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
This book takes readers on a cartographic journey through thousands of years of history in Las Vegas and explores many dimensions of the city today. Experience what Las Vegas was like in 1865, 1905, what lies beneath the waters of Lake Mead, an d what goes on in the vast public lands around the city.
Tributary Voices
Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River
ISBN: 9781647790424
Pub Date: 26 April 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Tributary Voices takes a fresh look at the Colorado River through an interdisciplinary approach to the role stories play in cultivating a sustainable water ethic. Through literary, rhetorical, and historical analyses of some of the river’s lesser-known stakeholders, this study considers how our present moment on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact demands a more comprehensive approach to river management.
One Shot for Gold
Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California
ISBN: 9781647790066
Pub Date: 4 May 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive...
Gambling With Lives
A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781948908924
Pub Date: 15 December 2020
Format: Paperback
378 Pages
A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada’s most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this revised and expanded edition includes discussions on:
- Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment
- The change to Las Vegas’ “What happens here, stays here” slogan
- The MGM Grand Fire and 1918 influenza pandemic
- Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the service industry
- Legionnaire’s Disease outbreaks at resorts
- Effects of the Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting
- The COVID-19 pandemic
Heavy Ground
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
ISBN: 9781948908887
Pub Date: 8 December 2020
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.
The City That Ate Itself
Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit
ISBN: 9781948908290
Pub Date: 31 January 2019
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
A social and environmental history of Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit.
Grit and Gold
The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849
ISBN: 9781943859771
Pub Date: 1 November 2018
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The captivating true adventure of the Death Valley Jayhawkers’ quest for gold
Mining the Borderlands
Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910
ISBN: 9781943859832
Pub Date: 1 October 2018
Format: Hardcover
184 Pages
A significant examination of the key mining professionals who transformed the US-Mexico borderlands
Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District
Under the Nevada Giant
ISBN: 9781943859221
Pub Date: 15 November 2016
Format: Hardcover
184 Pages
An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community